Evaluation of Social Capacity for Urban Air Quality Management

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Since early 1990s, Capacity Development and Capacity Development in Environment (CDE) are discussed in the field of aid assistance. In the current literature, although there is consensus on necessity of capacity development, there is none on its definition as well as its measurement. Regarding this, this study tries to develop a new evaluation method for capacity development. As a case study, we examine the elements of governmental capacity for urban air quality management in major cities of Japan. In this respect, city-level panel data in 1970-2000 period are used in the analysis. By using Factor analysis, we estimate four elements of capacity that contribute to urban air quality improvement. These four elements are further arranged into three factors. Using these factors, we propose an evaluation form called as Actors-Factors matrix. Evaluation method based on Actors-Factors matrix is superior to UNDP's method in a systematic classifies of evaluation criteria, efficient and effectives evaluation, and appropriate policy design for capacity development.
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